Leaving a Lasting Legacy

We recognize our responsibility to minimize our contribution to climate change. Our near-term focus areas include:

• Climate Change – We are working to mitigate climate change by reducing greenhouse gases in our operations. We are proactively developing reporting dashboards to monitor our progress.

• Spill Prevention – We have spill prevention controls in place to identify potential spill hazards, containment systems, and recovery equipment to minimize the impact of a potential event.

• Water and Waste Management – We strive to minimize and avoid negative impacts to the wildlife species, habitats, and ecosystem. This is accomplished through routine inspections to identify potential pollutant sources of our wastewater treatment plants related to both stormwater and wastewater.

• Air Emissions – We focus on managing and monitoring our air emissions related to all facets of our painting and blasting operations to ensure compliance with our Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality (LDEQ) Operating Air permits, where we monitor and report criteria pollutants and toxic air pollutants. This includes daily tracking of our paint, thinner, and cleaning solvents. Secondly, we have implemented abrasive blasting management best practices to reduce particulate matter emissions and reduce offsite impacts to surrounding communities from our abrasive blasting activities. This includes routine inspections, record keeping and personnel training.

• Natural Resources – We focus to reduce our energy and water consumption. For example, in 2020 we completed the installation of LED lights in several of our facilities in our partnership with the Entergy Solutions Program. This improved the lighting in our facilities for our workforce and demonstrates our commitment to reduce our electric usage. We also manage our water supply in sourcing, ground water integrity and conservation.

Health, Safety and Environmental (HSE) Management Plan

At Gulf Island, we firmly believe that environmental damage caused by our operations is unacceptable, and nothing is more valuable than the health and safety of our employees and contractors.

At the core of our HSE mindset is an uncompromising quest for excellence and the desire to be regarded by our customers and peers as a service provider that sets the standard for minimizing risk and incident occurrence. To maximize results, we prioritize our HSE objectives through daily safety and pre-job meetings, sharing safety learnings and hazard alerts, near-misses and incident reviews, supervisor safety training, and continuous process improvement. Our environmental management system at our Houma facilities is currently certified ISO 14001:2015. This certification is valid through January 2027.

Our HSE Commitment:
We consider the health, safety, and security of our employees, contractors, and business partners to be a core value. Excellent HSE performance will help make Gulf Island the company of choice for our customers and within our industry. With this recognition, we stand to gain the admiration of our business partners and governmental bodies for our commitment to and continuous improvements in HSE stewardship.

Our HSE Objectives:

• Strive for zero workplace incidents by fostering a safe and secure work environment
• Mitigate hazards that cannot be eliminated
• Minimize operational risk exposure
• Minimize operational footprint to reduce environmental risks
• Perform all work tasks in compliance with our HSE policies and procedures

Our HSE Priorities:

• No accidents or fatalities at worksites
• No environmental damages
• No lapses in HSE compliance
• No damage to operational assets

GHG Emissions, Air Emissions, Water Management, Biodiversity Impacts, Waste Management

Our commitment to protecting the environment has never been more important than today. We continuously look for ways to reduce the environmental impact of our operations, including a focus on protecting the land, water, and wildlife habitats in our surrounding communities, emphasizing spill prevention, water and waste management, air emissions, and other natural resource conservation. We are further focused on energy efficiency and reducing our carbon footprint within our daily operations. To that end, in 2022, our field employees completed hazardous waste minimization and pollution prevention training.

We have no oil and gas operations, and as such, our air emissions, particularly our Nitrogen Dioxide (NOx) and Sulfur Dioxide (SOx), are comparatively low. For 2023, our Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) air emissions in tons was 18.7, representing a decrease of 52% from 2021 levels. For 2023, our direct scope 1 emissions generated at our Houma facilities were 1,092 metric tons of CO2e, representing a decrease of 11% from 2020 levels, and our direct scope 2 emissions were 2,386 metric tons of CO2e, representing a decrease of 26% from 2020 levels. We will continue to monitor and look for ways to reduce our greenhouse gas air emissions at our facilities.

We generate non-hazardous waste from operations, including domestic trash and recyclable and other waste. We have no oil and gas operations, so we do not create waste associated with drilling, completing, fracking, or extracting oil and gas reserves. We generate and dispose of hazardous waste in compliance with all regulations. We disposed of 36.4 tons and 19.3 tons of hazardous waste in 2023 and 2022, respectively.  We actively look for ways to recycle and minimize our environmental footprint.  We recycled approximately 11 tons of paper in each of 2023 and 2022. In addition, we recycled 1,772 tons and 1,583 tons of steel in 2023 and 2022, respectively.

We do not own or operate oil and gas assets; as such, we have no venting, flaring, other combustion, process, or fugitive emissions associated with the development, exploration, and production of oil or natural gas. Additionally, we have no obligations to plug and abandon any well bores, platforms, pipelines, facilities, or equipment needed to extract oil and gas. We have no reserves and operate no leases in areas where species are threatened or endangered. Further, because we have no oil and gas operations, we have never had an oil spill incident and for each of 2023 and 2022, we had no reportable spills.